Yeah, probably some holdover due to how the XB1 worked. It had the UI on its own layer in 1080p while the game was 720.
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Yeah, probably some holdover due to how the XB1 worked. It had the UI on its own layer in 1080p while the game was 720.
Chance Hale
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It was 720P and had nearly no anti-aliasing. Probably the worst IQ of this generation so far.
What's your hardware? Download EVGA precision or afterburner to monitor your videocard temperature, game seems to be really pushing cards. As for playing the game I've stopped because achievements don't seem to be working unless you're online and on the VPN which is weird because that wasn't the case with other offline games. Biggest problem is the IQ is still pretty poor at 1080P/SMAA2X, lots of aliasing. Could push the resolution higher but I don't have the performance to spare.
And I still think the game looks nice in motion. In screenshots you can see some of the textures aren't great but in general they're pretty sharp and indoor areas look really nice. Lighting effects in the game are pretty impressive.
ambar_hitman
Member
I started unlocking 30 mins before my office timings. It didn't even complete unlocking by the time I left. Absurd.
Chance Hale
Member
Would try using one of those programs to track your temperature over a few minutes of gameplay. It's the first game I can think of that has made my 780Ti actually come close to it's downclocking/dontblowup temperature(81C) Alt-tabbed out and my card was at 78C. Imagine the 760 has a much lower threshold.
Weird issue: game runs great on the 750ti, at least at 30 fps outside of cutscenes. However, I can't change my resolution, only the refresh rate. The visuals menu has it locked at 1280x1024, which is what my old monitor's native resolution was. I currently have one that tops out at 1440x900. Any way to change that?
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Wait, how are you guys playing the game already?
I thought it unlocks tomorrow?
I thought it unlocks tomorrow?
VPNing to countries that are unlocked (like Japan). And a few people in those countries.
Cyborgmatt
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I played a five hour session with no crashes and got past the part you referenced.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
Ah, that explains that.
Guess I'll still wait till Friday. Gonna have a blast this weekend (hopefully it runs smoothly on either my PC or laptop).
Did you do the 60 FPS .ini file thing?
Thinking more and more that I should have just bought an XBox. I was told that my system would blitz next gen, I'm substantially over the recommended requirements for this game, yet instead of playing a video game, yet I'm hunting down software at 5 AM to tell me the internal temperature of my computer
Indeed. It happens way too often.
It has been pointed out countless times that some PC gamers expect way too much out of their hardware.
Folks playing on laptops should know what to expect.
Which i7 model? Stock?
Cyborgmatt
Member
4770-k, whatever that means.
icecold1983
Member
we need more performance reports. does the game have any type of benchmark? is there any accurate information on what has been upgraded visually over the xbone version other than resolution?
I did a few quick calculations recently on some expectations posted here for another port, and came to the conclusion that the poster expected the PC version to be more efficient than the console version.
Fattony12000
Member
What the shit is this shit?
How and why and how does this whole thing work whatmybrainismelting...
(Will this work for me in the UK? Can't Steam be...picky...about what games are redeemable where?)
My GPU is at 66C after a few minutes of game play.
Chance Hale
Member
Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem. Was thinking it might have been reaching the critical temp but that doesn't seem to be the case. Hopefully someone else has some suggestions for you.
Latest drivers ?
Yes. Latest everything and all Windows updates.
Mr. Luchador
Member
Well, it sounds like it might be worthwhile waiting 3-6 months until this game is patched... and it's not even released yet.
Check your event logger "application error" and see what is the faulty module. It will tell you if it's driver related or game related.
Yes, it'll work. Steam games can be region-locked, however that's of no concern in this case. Haeleos ran into a problem with the Winter Offensive keys he bought from the market (Steam won't let him trade them away for some reason, although since he didn't respond to my last PM the bug may have disappeared, otherwise he's waiting for Valve to fix the issue), so I'd recommend buying 10 TF2 keys instead. Doing so will be oh-so-slightly more expensive, but you shouldn't encounter any issues. Using Dispenser is literally just a case of following instructions, however if you'd prefer you can give me the keys and I can get you the game myself.
derExperte
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It probably will be. But my 660 is struggling even with lowered settings and not much on screen in some situations, had bad stutters in a cutscene and then it crashed a bit later.
IcyRhythms
Member
And it will. But max settings will always require more.
Haven't had a lot of time to play around with settings, but a casual test indicates that the game doesn't look very good and definitely doesn't run that great. Loading also takes forever, and both times when I quit the game, instead of quitting properly it just kinda froze there, and when I got back to the desktop with ctrl+alt+del there was a "This software has stopped working" message. Lol.
Faulting application name: deadrising3.exe, version: 1.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x53fe8cba
Faulting module name: nvwgf2umx.dll, version: 9.18.13.4052, time stamp: 0x53b4437c
Exception code: 0xc00000fd
Fault offset: 0x0000000000431acf
Faulting process id: 0x208c
Faulting application start time: 0x01cfc815bbfa8fb8
Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\deadrising3\deadrising3.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\nvwgf2umx.dll
Report Id: e919f440-340b-11e4-8284-b8975a55b0e3
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID:
derExperte
Member
Sounds poorly optimized
The crashes that me and other are seeing lead me to suspect that there is more wrong than that, I'll wait for the official release, maybe there'll be a day 1 patch and driver updates soon.
Until now the 2500K could take max in every game without much difference compared to newer CPUs. DR3 could change that but I'll need solid proof. Everyone was going on about VRAM when W_D was released and now after they fixed their engine it runs fine on average hardware.
Intheflorsh
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Sounds like a good idea. Sometimes the game crashes less than a minute after I get into gameplay.
I will say that the game has been pretty fun when it works.
That's what's so frustrating, I can tell the game is hot as hell. Hopefully it works eventually, but my first time spending more than $10 on a PC game has been a bust thus far.
Alright. Seems driver related. The latest WHQL drivers have not been optimized for the game. The next one should be more stable.
But it's only a matter of time before very capable CPUs start showing their age. Games will, particularly at max settings, be more and more demanding and this is a good thing in my opinion. The fact that you could "max out" a game at 1080p with a mid-range GPU is an anomaly.
Thankfully, this isn't a problem as long as games are scalable.
Yep, GPU driver. A quick google search showed that BF4 had a similar issue and apparently it was fixed with a driver update.
After playing for about 3 hours on my i5 Gtx 750 ti build, I've had no crashes at 30 fps. I would unlock the frame rate, but I couldn't get the user.INI trick to work, and I'm playing this with a gamepad a bit away from the monitor. Looks fine. Had to drop shadows and zombie detail to medium, but I have a steady 30 fps with few drops. Cutscenes have been fine after the first few slogging down to 10 fps at times. Internal res at 900p. Hoping a patch fixes the resolution issue.
Burgess_101
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Just bought this, cant wait to try it in coop with my brother. From what I read though my 780 at 1440p wont fair too well though...
Fattony12000
Member
Thanks for the info, I did look around the page and got what was going on in terms of process. It just boggled my mind a bit that this was such a Big, Organised Thing.
Yeah, I've been buying my games through traders for a long time now. The savings are massive, unless you're like me and just use that as an excuse to buy even more games.
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Though I only realised today as I got home that my one was already unlocked, could have been playing this yesterday!Don't let this spoil your appetite for PC gaming. There are some real gems out there that can only be found on PC. Your system is more than capable of playing a very wide margin of games, especially at top end, but be mindful that there will be bad ports because developers sometimes struggle/are incompetent when it comes to porting from console.
Intheflorsh
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I think I've found a temporary solution for anyone who is experiencing crashes: try rolling back your GPU driver. I did and have not been having any problems since.
Zomba13
Member
I appear to be lucky then having next to no issues. Apart from it being 30fps and nno way I can see in the settings to unlock it it's been fine for me. Needs the vsync because of screentearing for me but I've been playing with everything on full and FXAA anti aliasing. Have noticed the cutscenes seem a bit choppy compared to everything else but that's ok.
Had to put subtitles on because I had trouble hearing some of the non-cutscene dialouge from survivor side quest things and had a crash first time I booted it (just showed the DR3 logo and nothing els for 5 mins before I stopped it and relaunched).
I've got an i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz, GTX780 and 16GB RAM and everything is alright for me.
Had to put subtitles on because I had trouble hearing some of the non-cutscene dialouge from survivor side quest things and had a crash first time I booted it (just showed the DR3 logo and nothing els for 5 mins before I stopped it and relaunched).
I've got an i5 4670K @ 3.4GHz, GTX780 and 16GB RAM and everything is alright for me.
Turin Turambar
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Arma 2/3 also does it, and that is a series super pc-centric!
thequickandthedead
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It's almost done pre-loading. How do i use a VPN to access it?
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